Identification related to a ceremony or decedent should include

liability of a volunteer who individually contracts to pay a funeral bill
liability of an executor, nominated personal representative, or administrator for funeral expenses law of disinterment
circumstances under which exhumation is permitted in criminal cases and in civil cases
usual procedure for obtaining a disinterment authorization and the legal principles under which disinterment statutes are upheld
who has the primary right to disinter a body and the nature of the crime of disinterment without proper authorization.

Identification related to land should include

Identification related to a state’s rights should include

when a funeral home or cemetery may be considered a nuisance per se
power of eminent domain invoked to acquire land for a public cemetery
regulation by the state and what specific action must be taken to convert land to cemetery use.

Identification related to private cemeteries should include the

authority under which a private cemetery may enforce rules which control burial in it
prohibited use for purposes other than burial and whether the owner has the right to decorate and mark the grave
authority under which cemeteries are required to provide admittance to graves
offenses related to grave desecration
eminent domain.

Teacher Resource:

Process/Skill Questions:

What are the Virginia regulations regarding disinterment of human remains? Explain movement within the same cemetery and movement to a different cemetery located in a different area.
What is the responsibility of a volunteer who signs a Statement of Funeral Goods and Services contract with a funeral home?
Who has the right to request the disinterment of a human body?